Property market
The five-year median is £173,500 from 4 recorded sales in BB12 9HB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Pendle is £149,613 in June 2026, up 8.6% year on year.
BB12 9HB
Fence & Higham · Pendle · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Burnley
- Ward
- Fence & Higham
- Local authority
- Pendle
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe
- Postcode district
- BB12
- Postcode sector
- BB12 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB12 9HB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB12
- Postcode sector
- BB12 9
- Latitude
- 53.824277
- Longitude
- -2.291090
- British National Grid easting
- 380,936
- British National Grid northing
- 436,483
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Pendle · E07000122
- Electoral ward
- Fence & Higham · E05013207
- Parish or community
- E04005222
- Westminster constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe · E14001422
- Output area
- E00127931
- Lower layer super output area
- Pendle 008E · E01025204
- Middle layer super output area
- Pendle 008 · E02005247
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BB12
Property
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Gawthorpe View, Higham, Burnley, BB12 9HB | 24 June 2024 | £209,950 |
| 4, Rose Cottage, Gawthorpe View, Higham, Burnley, BB12 9HB | 28 July 2023 | £165,000 |
| 6, Gawthorpe View, Higham, Burnley, BB12 9HB | 20 December 2022 | £130,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 51
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 3
- 164 m
Higham St John's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.4 km
Wheatley Lane Methodist Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.9 km
Padiham St Leonard's Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 37
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 12
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Burglary 4
- Vehicle crime 4
- Drugs 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 22
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- BB12 9 residents
- 3,297
12 female, 10 male
Age bands in BB12 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.9%
434 residents
263 residents
598 residents
977 residents
879 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BB12 9 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
12
within 5 km
PADIHAM GROUP PRACTICE
PADIHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, 36 BURNLEY ROAD, PADIHAM, BURNLEY, BB12 8BP
ODS code P81130
3.0 km
IGHTENHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
TABOR STREET, BURNLEY, BB12 0HL
ODS code P81165
3.8 km
PENDLE VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
47 ARTHUR STREET, BRIERFIELD, NELSON, BB9 5RZ
ODS code P81070
3.9 km
ROSEGROVE SURGERY
225-227 GANNOW LANE, BURNLEY, BB12 6HY
ODS code P81197
4.0 km
COLNE ROAD SURGERY
34-36 COLNE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 1LS
ODS code P81035
4.4 km
PARKSIDE SURGERY
PRESTIGE PARK, COLNE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB11 1PS
ODS code P81047
4.6 km
THURSBY SURGERY
2 BROWHEAD ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 3BF
ODS code P81095
4.7 km
DR JEHANGIR (SH)
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81731
5.0 km
NELSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81170
5.0 km
PWE PENDLE VALLEY MILL
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81123
5.0 km
REEDYFORD HLTH CARE GROUP
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81032
5.0 km
WHITEFIELD HEALTHCARE
CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81736
5.0 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Four Alls Inn
BCT · Higham
- 0.0 miles
Four Alls Inn
BCT · Higham
- 0.1 miles
St Johns CEPS
BCT · Higham
- 0.1 miles
St Johns CEPS
BCT · Higham
- 0.3 miles
Leet Road
BCT · Higham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Pendle 008E, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,449 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
51 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 3 secondary schools. Higham St John's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 164 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
37 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 12 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.